Security Advisory - Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in Emergdata Driver of Huawei Smart Phones

The emerg_data driver of some Huawei smart phones has a buffer overflow vulnerability due to the lack of a parameters check. An attacker with the root privilege of the Android system can tricks a user into installing a malicious application on the smart phone, and send given parameter to smart phone to crash the system or escalate privilege. (Vulnerability ID: HWPSIRT-2016-12023)

This vulnerability has been assigned a Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) ID: CVE-2017-2696.

Huawei has released software updates to fix this vulnerability. This advisory is available at the following link: <http://www.huawei.com/en/psirt/security-advisories/huawei-sa-20170208-01-smartphone-en&gt;